<span class="searchmatch">ropear</span> alternative form of ropeare VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE <span class="searchmatch">Ropear</span>, or ropeare, which in the Glossary is a vagrant, is here a rattler...
robour, roboure, rubbere English: robber Scots: robber >? Yola: ropeare, <span class="searchmatch">ropear</span> Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous...
pirate; a militarised robber. English: robber Scots: robber >? Yola: ropeare, <span class="searchmatch">ropear</span> “robber(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan...
<span class="searchmatch">ropear</span> Possibly from Middle English robbere (“robber”), from Old French robeor. IPA(key): /rɔˈpɛːr/ ropeare vagrant; bawler; brawler 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER...